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Tuesday, 23 May 2017

ISIS supporters have been celebrating the
bomb attack that occurred in Manchester Arena during Ariana Grande's
concert which killed 22 people and left several injured. They are yet to
officially claim responsibility for the attack though.

There
were reportedly two blasts at the concert, killing and injuring concert
goers who were leaving the venue.

Moments following the attack, while
the UK and the rest of the world mourned the senseless deaths, Twitter
accounts linked to Islamic State used hashtags referring to the blast to
post celebratory messages, with some users encouraging similar attacks
elsewhere.

"It seems that bombs of the British airforce over
children of Mosul and Raqqa has just came back to Manchester," one user
named Abdul Haqq said on Twitter.

Abdul's tweet about Mosul and
Raqqa is a reference to the Iraqi and Syrian cities held by the
militants where a American-led coalition is conducting air strikes.
Other ISIS supporters posted messages encouraging each other to carry
out "lone wolf" attacks in the West and shared Islamic State videos
threatening the United States and Europe.

"Kill them" and
"#MondayMotivation" are some of the tweets posted by ISIS supporters
encouraging more attacks and referring to last night's attack as a
motivation.